39th sells both Mullins type and Spur type Golden Delicious.
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39th Parallel Nursery sells the original âMullinsâ strain of Yellow Delicious.
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Iâve previously purchased both from Mike.
Does Mullins strain YD resist Cedar Apple Rust? So many yellow apples get it.
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Cedar is a rarity here, only planted as an ornamental and not growing natively. I have no occurrences of CAR in my orchard. Hopefully someone else can better answer you.
Missouri Botanical Garden lists âMalus âMullinsâ Stark Golden Delicious is susceptible to apple scab, fire blight and powdery mildew, and very susceptible to cedar apple rust.â
@AndySmith @alan This must not be the same old strain Yellow Delicious that you find disease resistant. Is there more than one Mullins strain or possibly it has gotten mixed up over time or MBG simply has bad information?
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Andy, have your trees fruited and can you confirm you have the âno sprayâ version?
I wouldnât know what strain is what except that the newer varieties are virtually russet free and ripen a week or so sooner. Here the most important thing to be resistant to is plum curculio. We have plenty of CAR and scab, but at many sites with a few trees they donât become a huge problem most seasons. Both are spring diseases and so can easily be controlled with a couple sprays of myclo, but obviously on this topic they are worth a caveat.
On Tom Burfordâs list these are all said to be resistant to the 3 big diseases. Liberty, Arkansas Black (which is also resistant to curc), King David (Iâm hoping it is also), and old strain Stayman. In my area, if a variety is attractive to PC nothing else much matters- the apples will usually be destroyed.
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For what itâs worth I have apple trees in East Texas which is not a good area for apples. I have not sprayed this year at all. My trees are young and first year to bear. Although not perfect the two trees that have done best of all and have given me several apples from each tree without rot are Hunge and Bramleyâs Seedling. Personally, as a person that is not overly fond of eating fresh apples, I enjoy the taste of Hunge a lot!!!
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Your better off planting Grimes Golden if you want a disease resistant Golden Delicious type apple. Grimes Golden and Golden Delicious look very similar and I suspect if you come along an old tree that appears disease free itâs probably Grimes Golden rather than Golden Delicious. Grimes has better flavour but has more of a tendency to go biennial.
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I planted YD and Grimes in the 90âs. Neither really looked healthy. I think chemical drift from utility spraying may have been the nail in their coffin 15 or so years later.
But, I have Grimes again â on MM106 I think â that I plan to try again.
And I have a neighbor I planted a YD forâŚbut Iâll buy my YD at the store (or Opals probably as they taste better).
Iâve got Grimes Golden and Goldrush in my orchard, and my neighbor has a beautiful Golden delicious. Three generations within 100 feet! Both mine are on Geneva 969. Gold rush has struggled but the Grimes is doing great.
Both Mullins and Spur Type are fruiting this year for the first time. Mullins has about 6 -8 fruit that are all very clean, and Spur Type has one apple that looks pretty good but small. I canât claim theyâre âNo-Sprayâ worthy as I spray oil and copper in dormant season, and Captan and Imidan in the summer (which needs to be updated now that my trees are beginning to fruit).
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Does anyone have experience with Crimson Crisp?
I am pulling out my Pink Lady and replacing it with another variety. It has not done much of anything. Itâs puny and only had one little apple on it this year.
Iâm looking at Crimson Crisp. Would appreciate any comments.
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I donât know about no spray, but my Crimson crisp branch has produced some very good apples the last 2 years. I spray strep for fireblight and I grow them in zip loc bags. Those are the only interventions.
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I have Crimson Crisp in my nursery and it is a potential no-spray apple. It certainly does well in relative neglect and is one of only a few that always has fruit on young trees not reliably sprayed in my nursery. I tend to spray my nursery trees when I have something left over in my tank from another job. I donât really intentionally protect their fruit.
It is a nice tasting apple if not especially interesting. I prefer it to Liberty, which is in its season. Its apples donât seem as attractive to plum curc.
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Redfield, on the above list, fruited for first time this year. It resisted scab and CAR alright, but it had the most plum curculio damage of any of my apples.
(Perhaps, because it bloomed FIRST?)
Purdue rates Crimson Crisp-
Scab- very resistant
Fireblight- moderately resistant
Juniper rusts (cedar apple, quince,etc.)- susceptible
Powdery Mildew- moderately resistant
I think if cedar apple rust isnât bad in your area it would be a good choice. Itâs also a coop apple from PRI which counts in its favor and it has been tested in multiple regions.
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I think some sooty blotch and fly speck are cosmetic problemsâŚI have 14 of the 17 on that listâŚFuji and Gala may not look pretty if you donât spray, but the trees survive in an organic program.
So far as presentability of fruit, Arkansas Black and Braeburn are hard to beatâŚoh, and Liberty.
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Of that 14, which would you rate as top 3 no spray?